Depay trained with United for the first time on Monday and pictures show the Dutchman's shorts feature the number 26 - although that doesn't mean he'll wear the same number on his first-team shirt next season.

United players did not used to wear their squad numbers in training. Juan Sebastian Veron's first session featured the No.7, which inevitably led to rumours he was replacing David Beckham.

Depay, though, has inherited the vacant number from the lightweight Shinji Kagawa, who returned to Borussia Dortmund last year.

Encyclopedic United fans will note Depay's number is not the most auspicious, given how United's last three number 26s fared.

Before Kagawa wore it for two underwhelming seasons, the disastrous Gabriel Obertan donned the number.